There's nothing like a beautiful cake, to take center stage on any holiday table. Here are 15 festive and delicious holiday cakes, so good you'll want to make them all year long!
1. Christmas Chocolate Yule Log
Festive and delicious, this chocolate Yule log is the perfect show-stopping Christmas dessert. Easy to make from scratch, the chocolate sponge cake is soft and light and spiralled around a fluffy cinnamon spiced whipped cream, and iced with a rich chocolate ganache.
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2. Christmas Cake
This festive bake is gorgeous for a fancy holiday dinner party and easy enough to make with kids for a merry, joyful, perfect dessert.
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3. Gingerbread Spice Cake with Mascarpone Frosting
This gingerbread spice cake with mascarpone frosting makes a wonderful dessert for any holiday gathering. Thankfully, it's also deceptively easy to make!
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4. Cranberry Christmas Cake
Tart cranberries and bright orange zest combine in this dazzling, moist and flavorful holiday cake.
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5. Italian Lemon Olive Oil Cake
This Italian lemon olive oil cake uses everyday ingredients but is packed full of delicious fruity flavors. Made with fresh lemon juice and zest, this cake is both light and tender.
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6. Christmas Bundt Cake
A deliciously soft and moist vanilla Christmas Bundt Cake, easy to make, easy to decorate and always a showstopper at Christmas time.
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7. Winter Wonderland Cake
This fanciful cake is a fun baking project for the whole family. Get the recipe here.
8. Chocolate Orange Cake
This rich, decadent chocolate orange cake is slathered with a fresh orange chocolate frosting.
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8. Raspberry White Chocolate Bundt Cake
This raspberry white chocolate bundt cake is gluten-free and dairy-free. It is filled with white chocolate chips, fresh raspberries, and raspberry jam swirled in the center. The white chocolate ganache on top adds the best flavor!
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9. Orange Olive Oil Cake
This Orange Olive Oil Cake, using whole oranges, is a simple sunny dessert that can be made in a bundt pan or a single-layer round pan.
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10. Helen’s Christmas Cake
This delicious and traditional holiday spice cake makes a wonderful family tradition.
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11. Eggnog Cake
This festive eggnog cake recipe is three light and fluffy layers of cake sandwiched between decadent buttercream frosting. Garnish with fresh and candied cranberries for a beautiful and delicious holiday dessert that everyone is sure to enjoy!
12. Low FODMAP Souche de Noël
This Low FODMAP Souche de Noël (Christmas Stump) is best attempted by experienced bakers - but for those that faithfully follow a low FODMAP diet, this recipe is going to thrill you. It is a challenge and fun to make!
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13. Gluten-Free Gingerbread House
Gluten-free and full of flavor, this easy-to-make gingerbread house bundt cake brings all the Christmas magic as your kids cover it with frosting and candy. Or sprinkle it with powdered sugar for a simple and elegant presentation.
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14. Buttered Rum Eggnog Cake Recipe
This moist and perfectly spiced Buttered Rum Eggnog Cake Recipe gets jazzed up with a sensational buttered rum sauce that soaks into every bite!
15. Gingerbread Bundt Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
This Old Fashioned Gingerbread Bundt Cake with Orange Cream Cheese Frosting is the perfect festive dessert for the holiday season. The beautiful addition of frosted cranberries on top makes this cake an elegant addition to your holiday table.
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Grandma's Favorite Christmas Candy Recipes
While some look forward to endless fresh-baked cookies at Christmas time, there's a whole other crowd that can't wait for one thing: all that homemade candy!
You know the types I'm talking about. The peanut brittle, the chocolate bark, buckeyes, and fudges that used to delight you at Grandma's house as a kid. Here, we've gathered twelve classic favorites to start the season right!
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Anna Chesley is a freelance writer living a homestead lifestyle, with a special love for family travel, old books, vintage skills, and seaside living. In addition to founding Salt In My Coffee, she runs the website, New England Family Life, as well as The 1800's Housewife, a website devoted to re-creating authentic 1800's recipes.
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